Ali Khamenei

Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (born 15 July 1939) has been the Supreme Leader of the Muslim Ummah in the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1989.

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American politicians

• The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.
  • It Is Not Unusual for Heads of State to Wish for the Death of Another Country's President

Bush and Hitler

• What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants. They get angry once they see an independant nation.
  • Leader: US disturbs peace in Iraq 16 May 2007

Conflict in Iraq

• The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.
  • The Americans in Iraq are 'like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.' May 2004

• Khamenei: The Iraqi people will hate any government established in Iraq that will be recognized as appointed by the Americans, just as the Americans are hated. The Americans' coming to Iraq was a mistake. Their staying was a mistake. Their behavior with the population was a mistake....They must know that certainly, the Islamic world and chiefly the Shiite world will not stay silent in face of this.
• Audience: Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Khamenei is the leader. Death to the opposers of the rule of jurisprudent. Death to America. Death to England. Death to the hypocrites (Mujaheedin-E Khalq) and Saddam. Death to Israel.
  • Iranian Leader, Ali Khamenei, Speaks about the American Involvement in Iraq May 2004

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Emigration of Iranians

• Yes, the young people go abroad, but they come back.
  • Young Iranians dream of better life in the West, Reuters, 23 March 2007

Fatwa on Boycott of Israel

• The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.
  • Imam Syed Ali Khamenei

Holy sites in Islam

• Drawing near to the holy places (Najaf and Karbala) and damaging their honor is no trivial matter...This is also not unique to the Shiites. The Muslims have responded to this issue...As long as they (the Americans) persist in committing this crime, so will the wrath of the Islamic world increase and rage.
  • Iranian Leader, Ali Khamenei, Threatens the US May 2004

Invading Iran

• If you had been able to harm the Islamic republic, you would not have wasted a single minute in the past 27 years. ...If you make the slightest mistake regarding Iran, the flow of energy in this region will surely be jeopardized seriously.
  • The U.S. Cannot Guarantee the Flow of Energy in This Region June 2006
• If they want to threaten us and use force and violence against us, they should not doubt that Iranian officials will use all they have in their power to deal a blow to those who assault them.
  • Leader says Iran will retaliate if attacked, Reuters, 21 March 2007
  • Leader says Iran would retaliate if attacked March 2007

• We will never start a war. We have no intention of going to war with any government.
  • Khamenei speech: Excerpts, BBC News, 4 June 2006

• If God forbid, a bitter experience and test emerges for the nation we ourselves will put on combat fatigues and get ready for sacrifice.
  • Khamenei: Ready to sacrifice myself

New Iraqi government

• Iran has always been keen to see an independent Iraq with a popular government in its neighborhood and accordingly the present government in Iraq is fully supported by Iran.
  • "Iran Supreme Leader: Unity among various Iraqi groups is a religious must". Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA). 08-11-2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-15. 

Liberal democracy

• When the American president visits countries in South America[...], the peoples there welcome him by burning the American flag...This means the shaking of the foundations of liberal democracy, of which the West, and above all America, claim to be the standard bearer....Day by day, the reputation of liberal democracy and of America - the vanguard of liberal democracy in the world - is diminished in the eyes of the world. At the same time, the reputation of Islamic Iran grows. The peoples understand that the Americans are lying, when they claim to be defending human rights.
  • Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei Threatens to "Strike at Them with All Our Capabilities" If Iran Is Attacked 21 March 2007

Nuclear energy

• Should the Iranian nation beg for the right of exploitation of nuclear energy from the bullying world powers until they accept that the nation has a nuclear right?...No. This is not the way of a free and independent nation. ... Rights cannot be achieved by entreating. If you supplicate, withdraw and show flexibility, arrogant powers will make their threat more serious.
  • Iran leader: Won't beg for nuke power June 2007

People's Mujahedeen of Iran

Khamenei about the assasination of Iranian General Ali Sayad Shirazi by the People's Mujahedeen of Iran.

• The faithful and brave commander of the Islamic army and devoted soldier of the religion and the holy Qur'an attained martyrdom at the hands of the criminal, bloodthirsty and disgraced munafiqeen hypocrites. This is not the first nor the last time a faithful and lover of the lofty ideas of the divine faith has been martyred by the dirty, criminal and corrupt hands of those mercenaries who have to earn their livelihood only through serving the enemies of Islam. The hot plains of Khuzestan and the high mountains of Kurdestan have witnessed the preparedness and devotion of the brave and determined man who left numerous memories of his courage and self-sacrifice during the eight-year sacred defense period.
  • "Ali Sayed Shirazi". 

Annapolis Conference

• All politicians in the world are aware that this conference is doomed to failure.
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Israel

• From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this.
  • "Iran: We will help 'cut out the cancer of Israel'" - The Daily Telegraph, 3 Feb 2012

Libya

• The US and Western (allies) claim they want to defend the people by carrying out military operations or by entering Libya… You did not come to defend the people, you’ve come after Libyan oil.
  • About the foreign military intervention in Libya. (3 March 2011) [2] [3]

About Ali Khamenei

• Hizbullah chose to be loyal to the regime in Iran, to the rule of the Jurisprudent, Hizbullah made a religious choice – and it is free to make such a choice... It chose to consider Ali Khamenei in Iran as their source of emulation. They turn to him to ask what is permitted and what is forbidden.
  • Lebanese Shiite Scholar Muhammad Ali Al-Husseini Slams Hizbullah, Iran, and Syria, and Declares Support for Saudi Efforts in the Middle East. MEMRI (August 18, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-22.

• ... one of God's great graces, alongside the Islamic Republic, is the presence of the leader – this great leader who enjoys the grace of God. I say this out of experience, not as a gesture of politeness. They should be aware of the value of this great leader, and know how to make the most of this grace, and thank God for this. They should preserve this. With God's help, they should benefit the most from this great personality.
• We find ourselves in front of a great and exceptional personality who is criticized - even in Iran. Our responsibility is to introduce this great Imam to the nation, This is the very important and sensitive mission of this conference.

• • Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah Sec.-Gen. Hassan Nasrallah: We Received Guidance from Khamenei during the War. MEMRI (August 11, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-28. [4]

• Why does Khamene'i threaten America with a multifold retaliation if Iran is struck but didn't move a finger when American rockets pierced the tomb of Imam Ali (Allah bless him) in Najaf?
  • Sheikh Ayman Zawahri, Review of Events: As Sahab's Fourth Interview with Zawahiri (December 16, 2007).

• Western diplomacy tends to ignore Khamenei, who sabotages any effort to go around him as the final arbiter of Iranian policy.
  • Mehdi Khalaji, Get to 'yes' with Iran by talking to Ali Khamenei. The Daily Star (20 February 2008).

• I remember the day when Nelson Mandela, the South African leader came to visit him and called him 'my leader.'
  • Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani. [5]

See also

• Ruhollah Khomeini

External links

• Great Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei biography
• Official Website
• Profile of Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at GlobalSecurity.org
• Profile of Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei at Iran Chamber Society
• Ayatollah Khamenei Profile at Al Jazeera Publishing
• Leader's Statements in a Meeting with Participants in the Islamic World Media conference January 2002
• Ali Khamenei: The real power in Iran April 2007
• The TIME 100 (2007 list)

Video clips

• Imam Khamenei
• Imam Khamenei speaking to students - Eng sub
• Imam Khamenei visiting Ayatollah Mesbah
• From the Scene: Khomeini Anniversary June 2007
• Americans in Iraq
• Threatens U.S.
• American Involvement in Iraq
• 'Zionists' Crime'
• Don't Need Atomic Bomb
• 'If Someone Harms Our People...'
• 'Jihad Is One Of Gates to Paradise'
• 'We Do Not Look for Nuclear Weapons'
• 'Nuclear Weapon Is Our Youth'
• US and Israeli Intelligence Responsible for Iraq Bombings
• Iran's Enemies Want to Destroy it with Miniskirts
• 'Death to America'
• Iranian Leader Ready to Sacrifice Lives
• Jews' Claims & Hitler's Crimes
• 'U.S. Responsible for Terrorism'
• 'Europe Not Safe from Americans'
• Death of Another Country's President
• 'Zionists Paid Denmark's Cartoonists'
• 'Death to America' II
• 'If Americans Attack Iran...'
• Energy Flow in Middle East
• Hezbollah Won't Disarm
• Iran Not Afraid of U.S.